Coordinates will take you to a info sign explaining Pond Creek Watershed.
The Pone Creek Watershed is one of the highest concentrations of wetlands in the Louisville area, as well as one of Louisville's most interesting and historical geologic areas. At one time, over 126 square miles drained into pond creek. The watershed was created when an ancient lake bed deposited carbon-rich sediments that, over thousands of years became shale. The shale (sometimes called slate) formed hard layers that drained poorly, trapping water that became wetlands and swamps in this region. Because of the watershed's wet swampy qualities and nutrient poor soil, it became an isolated area that was unique to the rest of Louisville. This low-lying area was know as the "Wet Woods".
Due to it's isolation, the Wet Woods developed a mysterious mythical reputation, with stories of ghosts, bottomless springs, and settlers getting lost for days on their own property. My grandfather who grew up on this area during the time would tell me stories of picking berries in the hot summer, then dipping a ladle in Duck Spring for a drink, and the water was so cold it would give you a headache. Or of a man losing control of his horse and buggy team that ended up in Duck Spring, and no one was able to fish him out of it. He claimed the spring was "Bottomless".
In order to claim this Earth Cache, please email me the answers to the following:
1. How do you think this watershed was formed?
2. Why do you think drainage is so poor here?
3. What do you think the quality of the soil is here? (ex: poor, average, or rich)
This Earth Cache is dedicated to my grandfather, Eugene Wesley Spain and the stories that he shared with me in my younger days.